SCHOOL  GARDEN  WORE  ANNOUNCEMENT 
OF  THE  CLEVELAND  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS 
SEASONuUF  NINETEEN  EIGHT 


Cleveland  Public  Schools 


Announcement 

of 

School  Garden  Work 
Season  of  1908 


The  Board  of  Education 
Cleveland 
1908 


Flower  Show 
Wade  Park  School 


The  Board  of  Education 

of  the  City  School  District  of  the  City  of  Cleveland 
Organization  for  1908 


MEMBERS 


Sarah  E.  Hyre  Francis  H. 
Samuel  P.  Orth 
Arthur  C.  Ludlow 


Haserot  Walter  D.  Sayle 
John  C.  Canfield 
William  G.  Leopold 


OFFICERS 

Francis  H.  Haserot,  President 

Charles  Orr,  Director  of  Schools 

William  H.  Elson,  Superintendent  of  Schools 

Louise  Klein  Miller,  Curator  of  School  Gardens 


School  Headquarters 

East  6th  Street  and  Rockwell  Ave.  N.  E. 


Pergola  and  Summer  House 

Doan  School  Garden 


Rosedale  School 


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Tree  Planting— Watterson  School 


Cleveland  School  Gardens 

School  gardens  and  school  gardening  were  first  inaugurated  in 
Cleveland  public  schools  in  1904,  when  the  work  was  conducted 
jointly  by  the  Home  Gardening  Association  and  the  Board  of 
Education. 

In  1905  the  Board  of  Education  assumed  entire  charge  of  the 
school  gardens.  Eight  were  established  in  different  parts  of  the 
city  and  Miss  Louise  Klein  Miller  was  employed  to  supervise  them. 
So  successful  was  the  work  that  on  recommendation  of  the  Director 
of  Schools,  the  position  of  curator  of  school  gardens  was  created 
and  on  October  16,  1905,  Miss  Miller  was  appointed  by  the  Direc- 
tor to  the  position,  the  first  one  of  its  kind  in  the  schools  of  the 
United  States. 


The  activities  of  school  garden  work  of  the  Cleveland  Public 
Schools  as  now  organized  include  gardens  for  the  following  classes  : 

First — For  normal  children,  as  at  Doan,  Rosedale  and  Warren 
Schools. 

Second — For  defective  children,  as  at  Outhwaite,  Fowler  and 
Orchard  Schools. 

Third — For  delinquents,  as  at  the  Boys’  School. 

Fourth — A botanical  garden  at  Rosedale  School. 

Fifth  — Lectures  on  gardening  at  various  schools  in  the  spring 
of  each  year, 

Sixth — Flower  Shows  held  in  September  and  October. 

Seventh — A kitchen  garden  in  connection  with  the  cooking 
schools  at  Oakland  and  Meyer.  This  marks  a beginning  of  what  is 
planned  to  be  a regular  feature  of  all  schools  where  cooking  is 
taught. 


Flower  Drill 

Closing  Exercises — Rosedale  School  Garden 


Children  at  Work 
Willard  School  Garden 


These  various  types  of  gardens  illustrate  the  possibilities  of  the 
work  in  a city  school  system  and  it  is  hoped  that  when  the  system 
is  fully  developed  each  individual  school  will  have  its  own  garden. 

The  work  in  school  gardens  is  at  present  entirely  voluntary  and 
no  part  of  the  regular  curriculum.  It  is  in  charge  of  the  Curator  of 
School  Gardens,  Miss  Louise  Klein  Miller,  who  is  appointed  by  the 
Director  of  Schools.  The  Curator  also  supervises  the  beautifying 
of  school  grounds,  the  planting  of  shrubbery,  flowers  and  vines. 
This  position  was  created  in  1905  and  is  believed  to  have  been  the 
first  of  its  kind  in  the  United  States.  Previous  to  this  appointment, 
similar  work  had  been  carried  on  at  two  or  three  schools  under  the 
patronage  of  the  Home  Gardening  Association,  which  has  done 
much  to  encourage  the  growing  of  flowers  by  the  children  of  the 
city  in  their  home  gardens  by  the  annual  distribution  of  thousands 
of  packages  of  seeds  through  the  schools. 


Transplanting  from  Hot  Beds  to  Cold  Frames 
Warren  School  Garden 


The  object  of  the  work  is  of  course  to  awaken  the  interest  of 
the  city  child  in  nature  and  in  gardening  as  a healthful  occupation 
in  life.  The  results  so  far  obtained  are  sufficiently  gratifying  to  en- 
courage its  promoters  to  hope  that  it  will  become  a regular  part  of 
the  manual  training  work  of  the  schools. 

After  a summer’s  training  at  a school  garden,  the  children  take 
great  pride  in  laying  out  gardens  of  their  own,  much  to  the  delight 
of  interested  parents.  These  gardens  at  home  are,  as  a rule,  well 
planned  and  planted,  things  of  beauty  and  utility,  yielding  pleasure 
and  profit  to  the  household,  demonstrating  that  the  object  for  which 
the  school  gardens  have  been  established  is  being  realized.  Some  of 
the  boys  go  to  the  country  to  work  on  farms  during  the  summer. 


Weeding  the  Individual  Beds 
Warren  School  Garden 


Limitations  of  space  make  it  necessary,  through  intensive  cul- 
ture and  succession  of  crops,  to  impress  upon  the  children  the  yield- 
ing capacity  of  a small  plot  of  ground,  thus  encouraging  them  to 
utilize  and  develop  to  their  highest  possibility  the  waste  space  in 
their  own  home  grounds. 

The  Warren  School  garden  is  well  located,  in  the  school  yard, 
and  although  comparatively  few  children  can  engage  actively  in 
practical  gardening,  all  children  have  the  benefit  of  seeing  prepara- 
tion of  soil,  laying  out  of  the  garden,  planting  seeds,  and  harvesting 
crops.  This  is  a Bohemian  district,  and  the  whole  neighborhood 
has  been  influenced  by  work  done  by  the  children  in  the  school 
garden. 


Tool  House 
Rosedale  School  Garden 


Thorough  organization  is  necessary  for  efficient  work.  The 
children  in  the  sections  are  responsible  to  the  section  leaders  ; the 
section  leaders  to  the  head  gardener,  the  head  gardener  to  the 
superintendent,  and  the  superintendent  to  the  Curator  of  school  gar- 
dens. 

The  garden  contains  forty  beds  each  six  by  twelve  feet,  sur- 
rounded by  a six  foot  flower  border  of  perennials,  producing  a succes- 
sion of  blooming,  and  enclosed  by  a hedge  of  Ligusteum  cralifolium. 

The  Sun  Dial  was  added  last  year,  the  first  prize  for  the  best 
school  garden  of  1907. 

The  Doan  School  garden  is  one  hundred  feet  square,  in  a 
vacant  lot  adjoining  the  school  grounds  and  loaned  for  the  purpose. 
The  wire  netting  fence  serves  as  a support  for  vines.  Inside  the 


The  Study  of  Corn 
Detroit  School  Garden 


fence  is  a herbaceous  border  of  flowers.  Six  foot  paths  divide  the 
garden  into  four  sections,  at  the  intersection  of  which  there  is  a 
summer  house  and  pergola  extending  over  the  paths  to  the  flower 
border. 

The  permanent  planting  of  climbing  roses,  actinidia,  akebia, 
quinata,  Dutchman’s  pipe,  clematis,  yuccas,  lilies,  iris,  phlox,  wall 
flowers,  columbines,  peonies,  hollyhocks  add  much  to  the  attractive- 
ness of  the  garden. 

The  organization  is  the  same  as  the  Warren  Garden,  each  sec- 
tion being  responsible  for  one  fourth  of  the  garden.  The  Sun  Dial 
was  last  year’s  prize.  The  garden  has  been  in  operation  since  1905. 

The  Rosedale  garden  is  believed  to  be  the  finest  example  of 
the  possibilities  of  this  department  of  school  work  in  the  United 
States.  The  plan  of  work  at  this  garden  combines  the  educative, 
aesthetic  and  utilitarian.  The  space  is  a “blind  lot”  which  the 


Board  of  Education  acquired  when  the  Rosedale  School  site  was 
purchased.  The  Botanical  Garden,  as  now  planned  and  partially 
completed,  will  illustrate  the  various  orders  of  plants.  The  flower 
garden  is  conducted  partly  for  its  beauty  and  partly  as  a propagating 
or  exchange  garden  for  other  schools.  The  school  garden  proper 
is  conducted  entirely  by  the  children  of  the  school.  Planting  was 
begun  two  years  ago  on  practically  a bed  of  sand.  The  rock  gar- 
den, flower  garden  and  vegetable  garden  are  designed  to  suggest 
attractive  arrangement  of  plants  to  secure  succession  of  blooming, 
color  scheme  and  harmonious  effects  of  foliage. 

The  botanical  garden  was  started  this  spring,  the  planting  be- 
ing done  according  to  the  Britton  and  Brown  system  of  classifica- 
tion. When  the  beds  were  made  ready,  the  soil  requirements  of 
each  group  of  plants  was  considered  and  so  far  as  possible,  supplied. 
Sixty-six  orders  are  now  represented,  and  others  will  be  added  as  time 
and  space  permit.  Lilies,  iris  and  other  plants  from  Holland  add 
color  and  interest.  This  garden  will  be  of  great  value  to  students 
of  nature,  physical  geography  and  botany. 


Making  Garden  Paths 
Rosedale  School  Garden 


DIRECTORY 


The  School  Headquarters,  East  Sixth  and  Rockwell  Avenue,  will  be 
open  from  8 a.  m.  to  7:30  p.  m.,  where  printed  matter  show- 
ing the  work  of  the  School  Gardens  may  be  obtained. 

The  Home  Gardening  Association  will  have  Headquarters  at 
Goodrich  House,  corner  St.  Clair  Avenue  and  East  6th  Street, 
where  photographs  and  printed  matter  showing  the  work  of 
the  Association  may  be  found.  These  Headquarters  will  be 
open  from  8 a.  m.  to  8:30  p.  m. 

School  Gardens  may  be  reached  as  follows  : 

East  Side 

Outhwaite,  East  55th  Cross  Town  to  Outhwaite,  west  to  school, 
1 block,  Garden  for  defectives. 

Brownell,  Euclid  or  Cedar  cars  to  East  14th  Street,  one  block  south 
to  school. 

Waring,  East  31st  Street,  Payne  Ave.  cars  to  East  31st  Street. 
School  on  corner. 

Doan  School,  reached  by  East  105th  Street  cross  town  or  Superior 
Ave.  cars  to  school. 

Rosedale  School.  Reached  by  Superior  or  Wade  Park  Avenue  cars 
to  East  115th  St.,  one  block  to  school  on  East  115th  Street. 
Also  kitchen  garden  at  Oakland,  one  block  East. 

Fowler  School.  Reached  by  Broadway  cars  to  Fowler  Avenue. 
Also  garden  for  defectives. 

Giddings  School.  Reached  by  Cedar  cars  to  East  71st  Street,  south 
to  school. 

Warren  School.  Reached  by  Broadway  cars  to  Dille  Avenue. 

West  Side 

Detroit  School.  Reached  by  Detroit  cars,  west  to  West  48th  St. 


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FROM  THREE  UNTIL  SIX  O’CLOCK 


LOUISE  KLEIN  MILLER, 

Curator  of  school  Gardens 


ELIZABETH  SPRAGUE 


Principal  of  Rosedale  school 


GARPEXING  CONTESTS 


Spading  and  Raking 
Bean  Planting 
Transplanting 
Hoeing  and  Raking 
Making  Hedge  Cuttings 


IN  EACH  CONTEST 

First  Prize  . . 15  Bulbs 

Second  Prize  . . 10  Bulbs 


Awards  will  be  made  for  efficiency  and  speed 


•T  U T>  Or  E S 


MR.  CHARLES  ORR 

. Director  of  Schools 

MR.  W.  H.  ELSON  . . 

. Superintendent  of  Instruction 

MR.  F.  H.  HASEROT  . 

. President  of  the  Board  of  Education 

MR.  F.  P.  BACHMAN  . 

. Principal  Normal  School 

MRS.  SARAH  E.  HYRE 

. Member  Board  of  Education 

MRS.  ANDREW  SQUIRE 


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